YA Fiction audiobooks

Stoner & Spaz

By: Ronald Koertge

Narrated by: Josh Hamilton

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

For sixteen-year-old Ben Bancroft – a kid with cerebral palsy, no parents, and an overprotective grandmother – the closest thing to happiness is hunkering alone in the back of the Rialto Theatre and watching Bride of Frankenstein for the umpteenth time. The last person he wants to run into is drugged-up Colleen Minou, resplendent in ripped... Read more

My Heartbeat

By: Garret Freymann-Weyr

Narrated by: Christy Carlson Romano

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Ellen loves Link and James. Her older brother and his best friend are the only company she ever wants. She knows they fight, but she makes it a policy never to take sides. She loves her brother, the math genius and track star. She is totally, madly in love with James, his face full of long eyelashes and hidden smiles. “When you grow out of it,”... Read more

Tales of Terror

By: Edgar Allan Poe, H. G. Wells, Charlotte Perkins...

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham & Kimberly Schraf

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The Monkey's Paw Jacobs was considered a humorist in turn of the century England, but here he gives us a masterpiece of horror. The Monkey's Paw is a Gothic tale, telling us again how wishes can go awry. The Pit and the Pendulum One of Poe's most familiar works, The Pit and the Pendulum is the first-hand account of a prisoner during the... Read more

Delivering Rome

By: Donna Getzinger

Narrated by: Terence Aselford

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In Ancient Rome, on the morning of his ninth birthday, young Martial Portius races against time to find his older brother Hershal. Unless Martial can deliver an important message to him, the forgetful Hershal will likely lose his job as a Roman courier. As Martial anxiously searches the crowded streets, he learns a good deal about the people,... Read more

Lettres à son frère Théo

By: Vincent van Gogh

Narrated by: Michael Lonsdale

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Né le 30 mars 1853 aux Pays-Bas et mort en 1890 en France, Van Gogh est aujourd'hui un des peintres les plus connus au monde. L'héritage que Van Gogh a laissé derrière lui est monumental : plus de 2000 toiles et dessins, 652 lettres écrites à son frère Théodore Van Gogh dit « Théo » publiées en 1911 et en France en 1960 constitutent un... Read more

Lord of the Flies

By: William Golding

Narrated by: William Golding

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

William Golding's classic novel of primitive savagery and survival is one of the most vividly realized and riveting works in modern fiction. The tale begins after a plane wreck deposits a group of English school boys, aged six to twelve on an isolated tropical island. Their struggle to survive and impose order quickly evolves from a battle... Read more

Secret Heart

By: David Almond

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Joe Maloney is out of place in this world. His mother wants him to be a man, and he can’t be that yet. His only friend, Stanny Mole, wants to teach him how to kill, and Joe can’t learn that. Joe’s mind is always somewhere else: on the weird creatures he sees in the distant sky, the songs he hears in the air around him, the vibrations of life he... Read more

Catalyst

By: Laurie Halse Anderson

Narrated by: Samantha Mathis

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

Meet Kate Malone-straight A science and math geek, minister's daughter, ace long-distance runner, girlfriend, unwilling family caretaker, emotional avoidance champion. Kate manages her life by organizing it, as logically as the periodic table. She can handle it all-or so she thinks. Then, like a string of chemical reactions, everything happens:... Read more

At the Crossing Places

By: Kevin Crossley-Holland

Narrated by: Michael Maloney

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The second thrilling novel in Kevin Crossley-Holland's bestselling Arthur trilogy

Arthur de Caldicot has achieved his dream: He now serves as squire to Lord Stephen of Holt Castle. But this new world opens up fresh visions as well as old concerns. Arthur longs to escape the shadow of his unfeeling father and meet his birth mother. To marry the... Read more

Son of the Mob

By: Gordon Korman

Narrated by: Max Casella

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A reluctant Mafia prince . . .
Vince Luca is just like any other high school guy. His best friend, Alex, is trying to score vicariously through him; his brother is a giant pain; and his father keeps bugging him to get motivated. There is just one thing that really sets him apart for other kids - his father happens to be the head of a powerful... Read more

Lioness Rampant

By: Tamora Pierce

Narrated by: Trini Alvarado

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

At last, Alanna of Trebond has become the first female knight errant in Tortall. She sets out on an impossible quest to find the Dominion Jewel, a legendary gem that, in the right hands, has limitless power for good. But while she searches for the one thing that can save her war-torn country, her nemesis returns from the dead and begins to wreak... Read more

All-American Girl

By: Meg Cabot

Narrated by: Ariadne Meyers

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Samantha Madison is just your average disenfranchised sophomore gal living in DC when, in an inadvertent moment sandwiched between cookie buying and CD-perusing, she puts a stop to an attempt on the life of the president. Before she can say “MTV2” she’s appointed Teen Ambassador to the UN and has caught the eye of the very cute First Son. Read more

Zazoo

By: Richard Mosher

Narrated by: Joanna Wyatt

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Zazoo is Vietnamese by birth but feels entirely French. She has lived with her adoptive Grand-Pierre in France in an old stone mill between the river and the canal since she was two, sharing poetry, adventures, and the predictable rhythms of the seasons. Then one misty October morning, a young man on a bicycle rides into Zazoo’s small village... Read more

Seek

By: Paul Fleischman

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Assigned to write an autobiography, high-school senior Robert Radkovitz instead creates a sound portrait of his life as he remembers it. Looking back, he hears his mother's singing, his grandmother's mysteries, Mexican soap operas, Poe, poetry, and, most cherished, the voice of his absent father from a single tape of one of his radio shows.
Told... Read more

The Red Badge of Courage

By: Stephen Crane

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Commonly considered Stephen Crane's greatest accomplishment, The Red Badge of Courage ranks among the foremost literary achievements of the modern era. It is the story of Private Henry Fleming who goes into the Civil War, a hot-headed young patriot with his mind brimful of ideas of glory. Stephen Crane was born in 1871 in New Jersey and... Read more

The Big Burn

By: Jeanne Ingold

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Jarrett is sixteen--man enough to reject the railroad job his father wants him to take, man enough to court Lizbeth Whitcomb, man enough to join the fight against the forest fires that are destroying Idaho and Montana But the flames are faster than anyone has dreamed, and soon the fire has come between Jarrett and his home, between Jarrett and... Read more

Breaking Point

By: Alex Flinn

Narrated by: Jason Harris

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul is new to Gate, a school whose rich students make life miserable for anyone not like them. And Paul is definitely not like them. Then, one day something incredible happens. Charlie Good, a star student and athlete, invites Paul to join his elite inner circle. All Charlie wants is a few things in return-- small things that Paul does... Read more

Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr

By: Garth Nix

Narrated by: Tim Curry

Length: 14 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Lirael has never felt like a true daughter of the Clayr. Abandoned by her mother, ignorant of her father's identity, Lirael resembles no one else in her large extended family living in the Clayr's glacier. She doesn't even have the Sight--the ability to See into the present and possibly futures--that is the very birthright of the... Read more

Troy

By: Adele Geras

Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The siege of Troy has lasted almost ten years. Inside the walled city, food is becoming scarce and the death toll is rising. From the heights of Mount Olympus, the gods keep watch.

But Aphrodite, goddess of love, is bored with the endless, dreary war, and so she turns her attention to two sisters: Marpessa, who is gifted with god-sight and... Read more

The Princess Diaries, Volume III: Princess in Love

By: Meg Cabot

Narrated by: Anne Hathaway

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Princess Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo may seem like she's the luckiest girl ever. She's a princess, for starters. and while she's no supermodel, mirrors do not crack at her reflection. Best of all, she finally has a boyfriend. The truth is, however, that Mia spends all her time doing one of three things: preparing for her... Read more

The Woman Who Rides Like A Man

By: Tamora Pierce

Narrated by: Trini Alvarado

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A knight at last, Alanna of Trebond heads out to seek adventure in the desert of Tortall. Captured by desert tribesmen, she is forced to prove herself in a magical duel to the death. But her real challenge doesn't come until after she wins. As the first female shaman, Alanna must fight to change the ancient traditions of the stubborn desert... Read more

Whale Talk

By: Chris Crutcher

Narrated by: Brian Corrigan

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

There’s bad news and good news about the Cutter High School swim team. The bad news is that they don’t have a pool. The good news is that only one of them can swim anyway. A group of misfits brought together by T. J. Jones (the J is redundant), the Cutter All Night Mermen struggle to find their places in a school that has no place for them. T.J.... Read more

True Believer

By: Virginia Euwer Wolff

Narrated by: Heather Alicia Simms

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

What's new in LaVaughn's life is Jody--a boy she knew as a child who's come back to the housing project where she lives. Jody is like a miracle: He smells like chlorine, he calls her "little buddy," he goes with her to the dance. It's just as if he's in love with her. Except not quite.

As LaVaughn puzzles over Jody, as her best friends... Read more

Book of Pirates

By: Howard Pyle

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Rip-roaring fictional adventures of swashbuckling pirates and buccaneers of the Spanish Main. Includes The Ghost of Captain Brand and The Treasure Box. Read more